Bolton: Yeah, Trump Tried to Extort Ukraine
The big news from last night is that someone leaked an important bit from John Bolton’s upcoming book. Here is the New York Times: President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including…
House Dems Now Considering Whether to Call Bolton to Testify in House
John BoltonPablo Martinez Monsivais/AP In the aftermath of the John Bolton bombshell—the news that a draft of his upcoming book recounts the president telling Bolton he was withholding military aid from Ukraine to force that country to launch political investigations to benefit him—some House Democrats are considering demanding Bolton appear before a House committee, perhaps…
Trump Fumes Over Bolton Bombshell
Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA President Donald Trump lashed out at John Bolton in the wake of an explosive New York Times report late Sunday that his former national security adviser’s forthcoming book will accuse the president of telling Bolton that he wanted to continue withholding security assistance to Ukraine until the country moved forward with investigations into…
Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook.
The Facebook pavilion at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.Pierre Teyssot/ZUMA Press This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In March 2008, as Facebook was speeding…
Harvard Alumni Are Turning Up the Heat on Fossil Fuel Divestment
The Boston Globe/Getty In late November, hundreds of protesters stormed the field of the Yale Bowl during the annual Harvard-Yale football game, sprinting from both sidelines in the final minutes of halftime. Chanting “fossil fuels have got to go” as well as “OK boomer,” the rowdy crowd, bearing beer cans and vape pens, delayed the game for an hour…
Big Oil Wants to Dump More Wastewater Into Rivers. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
An oil refinery in Texas./Getty This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. For more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of salty wastewater bubble up from the ground in their wheat field. The “saltwater purge” has killed three…